I need an automator script to play a folder of movies

I have a folder of quicktime movies. I have a Mac Mini with Lion. I have a TV. I need an automator script to grab the list of movie files from the folder and play them full-screen, one-by-one and then loop through the process to continue playing them, unattended, all day.
I cannot get the proper steps in automator to accomplish this (seems to me it should be easy) job.
Any ideas?
Doug Jansen
Tokyo

Dave,
Thanks for the tip. I didn't know that Quick Look would display a folder of files one-by-one. Once I set the first file to full screen, the rest also played full screen one after the other. Now I need a way to automatically launch Quick Look, set full screen and loop. This site http://automator.us/leopard/downloads/index.html has an automator action that uses Quick View, but on my Lion machine it just displays the first movie and only the first frame of the movie. It stops at that point.

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